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The wildly talented Ed Bell now has his own website at EdBell.net. Ed’s been working in animation since the days of Bakshi’s MIGHTY …

JimSmithCartoons.com!!! Need I say more. As California governor Schwarzenegger might say, this is most definitely not a website for …

Here’s Badly Drawn Boy’s “The Year of the Rat” music video as directed by Canadian animator Monkmus. I wasn’t familiar with Monkmus’ …

This past weekend, the Design Museum in London opened an exhibition about designer Saul Bass (running through October 10). The …

What, you say you’re still not sick of SD Con news and want more? On Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1-2 pm and on Sunday from …

Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi is a talented designer/color stylist who has been working for the past few years on Blue Sky’s upcoming animated …

I’m a big fan of the work of mid-century designer Alvin Lustig, but it’s difficult to come across examples of his work. That’s why I was …

One booth where I’ll be plunking down some cold, hard cash is that which belongs to Ronnie del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa (booth #1422). …

Here’s a link to the SHARK TALE trailer where Jeffrey Katzenberg enthralls audiences with a fish who does an impression of MC Hammer and …

Brew co-editor Jerry Beck has certainly plugged the San Diego Comic Con enough times already, but it won’t hurt to mention once more that …

Chris F. writes to ask if I ever heard of the book/DVD set, FLIPS 7, which presents the work of some dozen-and-half modern animation …

Animator turned self-publishing magnate, Michel Gagn&eacute files a REPORT from Anthrocon 2004, a major “furry” convention in …

And yet another blog. This one is by members of The Society of Ilustrators of Los Angeles and links to animation/cartoon-related items as …

Jonathan Groff, exec producer of the forthcoming NBC series FATHER OF THE PRIDE, explains why they’re producing the show in CG animation: …

This new Disney blog seems like it could become a promising source of Mouse news. It’s run by John Frost, whose grandfather was early …

In this NY TIMES article about FAMILY GUY’s Seth MacFarlane, he reveals that on September 11, 2001, he was booked on one of the planes …

Following up on Fred Crippen’s commercial for the Kennedy campaign which I mentioned a couple days ago, here’s a cool photo of Fred and …

Russell Degnan has a nice REPORT from the Melbourne International Animation Festival with mini-reviews of the films and retrospective …

A couple of electronic bugging devices were found in Michael Eisner’s Disney office last week, according to the anonymous LA blogger A …

Nearly every single US presidential television ad from 1952 to the present can be seen HERE. Noticeably there aren’t many animated …